Don’t jump to conclusions about the events leading up to my death. Just take the actual story and embellish it in a way that makes you look good. Make it about you. Don’t tell work I’m dead. Let them think I just stopped showing up. See how long it takes them to fire me. When they do, show them the obituary and yell PSYCH!

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I actually kind of like that idea; in some of my bleaker moods I’ve felt, “The only way people would notice I was actually gone was that stuff wasn’t getting done, and they’d be angry at me for not doing it.”

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I have only thought of one instruction for my own demise, which probably won’t be needed since I think people will do it anyway: “If my name comes up in a group, just look around awkwardly and say things like, ‘Umm, yeah. He was … something.'”

Actually, by the time it does happen the looks will probably be less awkward than blank, but still…